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Film critic Ahmed Saad El-Din stated that Egypt's animation sector suffers from poor strategic planning and diminished focus on children's content production, despite possessing the technical expertise and resources needed to compete internationally. The sector once approached global standards following the establishment of an animation department within the Radio and Television Union in the 1960s.
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